Guidance on completing the application form
Please read this guidance in full, before completing your application form, in conjunction with the Faculty of Public Health assessment criteria, the Public Health Training Portfolio and the specialty curriculum.
Authentication of documents
Some parts of the application form ask for original or authenticated documents. Authentication can be done, for example, by a solicitor. This would normally involve the document being stamped with an official stamp and being signed and dated by the authorising official. If the certificate is not in English, then an authenticated translation should also be provided.
Completing the application form
| Application form [PDF] for Direct Entry for Overseas-trained doctors |
The application form should be completed fully, making sure you cover all the points below.
Please provide your last name, first names and any other names by which
you may be known.
You must provide an address for correspondence where you can be easily
contacted. Any original documentation will be returned to this address,
and the STA will write to you at this address with its decision on your
assessment. You should also provide a telephone and fax number, with
the international dialling code if necessary and an email address if
you have one. It is essential that you inform the Faculty of Public
Health of any changes to contact details.
Please state your gender, date of birth and your country of citizenship.
If you are an EEA citizen, or can demonstrate an enforceable European
community right, then any experience you have gained in posts undertaken
within the EEA may also be taken into consideration for assessment (see
the guidance on Article 9(4)). If you are not an EEA citizen, but your
spouse is an EEA citizen, then please state the country of citizenship
of your spouse. If your experience is to be considered for Article 9(4),
you will be asked to provide further documentation regarding your, or
your spouse’s, citizenship.
If you are registered with the GMC, then please provide your registration
number. If you are not yet registered with the GMC, then please read
the guidance note on GMC
registration.
Please provide an original or authenticated certificate of registration
with the appropriate authority for the country where you last worked,
and, if different, the country in which you completed your specialist
training.
Please state the name of the qualification, the institution who awarded
your qualification, and the date awarded, and provide a copy of your
certificate (this does not have to be authenticated). If you are not
already registered with the GMC, you will at some stage have to provide
them with details of your qualification for registration purposes (see
the guidance note on GMC
registration).
Please state the specialty, year and authority/institution which awarded
the qualification, and provide an original or authenticated copy of
the certificate. Applications through the overseas assessment route
are required to have an overseas specialist qualification which was
awarded by competitive examination or by continual assessment following
a set syllabus. Applicants without an overseas specialist qualification
are not eligible to be assessed.
Please list the name, awarding body and date of any further qualifications
that you wish to be considered. You should provide original or authenticated
copies of any certificates.
Please give the title/grade and other relevant details (location, start
date etc) of your current post.
10.1 Training programme/curriculum
Please provide documentary evidence of the specialist training you undertook
leading toward your specialist qualification. This should be a copy
of the training programme/curriculum document from the regulatory body
responsible for your specialist training.
10.2 Evidence of completion of training
Please provide documentary evidence of completion of the training you
have undertaken, which must include evidence that continuous assessment
by an appropriate body has been carried out. Evidence of completion
of specialist training may be, for example, your overseas specialist
qualification, or a certificate/document awarded after further training
had been carried out following the award of your overseas specialist
qualification. This certificate/document must be from a regulatory body
confirming specialist qualification and/or status, and be an original
or authenticated copy.
10.3 Overseas training posts
Please state the grade, specialty, start and finish dates (month and
year) and hospital/institution for each training post you undertook.
Only posts undertaken as part of an overseas training programme can
be assessed. You should also briefly list the content of specialist
training undertaken and the amount of time spent in various modules
of training. If any training was part-time, please state the percentage
of the full-time training week you undertook. You will need to compare
your training to the curriculum document
on the Faculty of Public Health’s website. You need to
satisfy the Faculty of Public Health that you have undertaken
training in posts which provide a range of experience with increasing
responsibility and that you have acquired the full breadth of knowledge,
skills and competencies equivalent to those expected of a trainee undertaking
a UK specialist training programme (see the Public
Health Training Portfolio).
Please give the grade, specialty, start and finish dates, and hospital/institution
of any other posts you have undertaken which are not overseas training
posts. If you are an EEA citizen, or can demonstrate an enforceable
European community right, then any experience you have gained in posts
undertaken within the EEA may also be taken into consideration for assessment
(see the Advice to applicants
section on Main
pathways to the Specialist Register for overseas qualified specialists).
Please provide any additional information which you feel might be of
assistance to the Faculty of Public Health in processing your
application.
| Structured reference form [PDF] in connection with an application for specialist registration in the UK |
Please state the name and contact details for each referee and the post
which they supervised. It is important that you name referees who have
supervised your training in public health medicine or equivalent specialty
and who were involved in the process leading to the award of your overseas
qualifications. Reference forms should be sent to the training supervisor
in your last training post, your next most substantial training post,
and any other posts which you consider to be of particular importance
to your training. These forms are sent with a copy of the UK specialty
training curriculum and your CV. Reference forms and the training curriculum
document are included in this pack.
If you have ever held an NHS consultant post, one of your referees should report in confidence on your ability to work in a professional capacity at consultant level in the NHS and (if substantive or honorary) whether the post was obtained in open competition.
Please provide evidence of meeting the Part
I MFPH syllabus and Part
II MFPH competencies. You should indicate by what means you have
covered each requirement: through post held, academic course or examination
passed in this section of the accompanying application form.
A full curriculum vitae should accompany the completed application form.
Please note that this will NOT be accepted as an alternative
to the completed application form.
An assessment fee of £1110 should be made payable to ‘Faculty
of Public Health’. A decision based on your application
will not be forwarded to the STA before the fee has been received.
Please note that all fees are non-refundable regardless of the outcome
of an application.
Please complete the checklist to show that all sections of the application
form have been completed and all the relevant documentary evidence has
been provided. Incomplete applications will be returned.
Please note: If you are applying for assessment under
a specialty which is not a CCST specialty – Article 9(3)(a) –
then your overseas specialist qualification(s) and training will be
assessed against the level of skill and knowledge required of an NHS
consultant in the specialty (see the Advice
to applicants section on Main
pathways to the Specialist Register for overseas qualified specialists).